I think it is more fair especially because MOST registrants are not published online if you call registering at all fair. The biggest problem there is about is the civil commitment. If you are unfortunate enough to end up in that mess its pretty bad.

It actually is the only state that does not word the definition of “sex offender” retroactively…..

Minnesota is one of the fairest states in the U.S.

You nailed it with “distraction” as that is their whole intent, to keep the public distracted with mudslinging so we don’t see what’s really happening.

@mike, while it’s not quite exactly the same as Alaska, when MN switched certain offenses from 10-yr registration to lifetime, the changes only applied to new convictions after that date and not old ones. It requires some digging to find this as the statute itself says nothing about it and usually in MN the statutes themselves don’t have effective dates. Instead, you must read the legislative history to find that information. If you look at MN statute 243.166 on the state legislature site and scroll to the bottom there is a section called recent history. Each line has two links and the link on the right side is the entire bill that was passed and will include the effective dates and information about dates of offense to which it applies. For example the state greatly expanded lifetime registration in for offense committed after Aug 1, 2000 in the 2000 session but did not apply this lifetime requirement to most offenses committed before that. My point being is that Alaska isn’t the only state…